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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English thought, ithoȝt, from Old English þōht, ġeþōht, from Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz, *gaþanhtą (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think”). Cognate with Scots thocht (“thought”), Saterland Frisian Toacht (“thought”), West Frisian dacht (“attention, regard, thought”), Dutch gedachte (“thought”), German Andacht (“reverence, devotion, prayer”), Icelandic þóttur (“thought”). Related to thank.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: thôt
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /θɔːt/
- (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /θoːt/
- (US) IPA(key): /θɔt/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /θɑt/
Audio (US): (file)
- (Inland Northern American, Canada) IPA(key): /θɒt/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /θoːt/
- Homophone: thot (cot–caught merger)
- Rhymes: -ɔːt
Noun
[edit]thought (countable and uncountable, plural thoughts)
- (countable) Representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
- The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […] , the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
- (uncountable) The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
- Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
- (countable) A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
- Traditional eastern thought differs markedly from that of the west.
- (uncountable, now dialectal) Anxiety, distress.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 6:27:
- Which of you by taking thought, can adde one cubite vnto his ſtature?
- (uncountable) The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:consideration
- After much thought, I have decided to stay.
- A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- 'Bide the night at Heriotside,' says he. 'It's a thought out of your way, but it's a comfortable bit.'
Derived terms
[edit]- aforethought
- afterthought
- bethought
- collect one's thoughts
- counterthought
- food for thought
- forethought
- freedom of thought
- free thought
- gather one's thoughts
- give thought
- habit of thought
- have another thought coming
- hindthought
- hold that thought
- intrusive thought
- it's the thought that counts
- line of thought
- lost in thought
- merrythought
- metathought
- midthought
- misthought
- mode of thought
- mood-thought
- MTE (my thoughts exactly)
- nether thought
- netherthought
- nonthought
- on second thought
- on second thoughts
- overthought
- park that thought
- passthought
- penny for your thoughts
- perish the thought
- quick as thought
- school of thought
- second thought
- shower thought
- thought balloon
- thought-bearing
- thought blocking
- thought broadcasting
- thought bubble
- thought collective
- thought-controlled
- thoughtcrime
- thought criminal
- thought echo
- thoughted
- thought experiment
- thoughtform
- thought-form
- thoughtful
- thought leader
- thought-leader
- thoughtless
- thoughtlet
- thoughtlike
- thoughtograph
- thoughtographer
- thoughtography
- thought-out
- thought path
- thought pattern
- thought piece
- thought police
- thought process
- thoughtproof
- thought-provoking
- thought reform
- thoughtscape
- thought shower
- thoughtsick
- thoughtsome
- thought-terminating cliché
- thought wave
- thoughtway
- thought-world
- thoughtworthy
- thoughty
- thread of thought
- train of thought
- twithought
- underthought
- unthought
- unthoughted
- wishful thought
Translations
[edit]representation created in the mind
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process
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way of thinking
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Verb
[edit]thought
- simple past and past participle of think
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English þōht, from Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]thought (plural thoughtes)
- product of mental activity
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “thought, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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